free Download: Interpretations.zip
(3 songs [mp3, variable bitrate] + cover, size:12,35 MB)

This is a mini-album featuring 3 of my favourite songs - and these are the final versions, after many, many attempts.

Sometimes there are periods of time when I have to concentrate on working on other people's music. I always think that it will help me in one way or another.

Emotionally it allows you to stay away from your own troubles for a while, musically it provides an opportunity to sharpen your senses and to improve your skills in the craft of music production.

I really like these recordings. I think the songs I have chosen to record have quite a few things in common, despite of the fact that they are from completely different periods of time and from different parts of Europe. There is one 19th century piece with a German/Austrian origin and there are 2 Greek songs that were written in the 70's and 80's of the 20th century. The first of those songs was written by Manos Loizos who was (and still is - many years after his death -) one of the most beloved composers of contemporary music in Greece.

You could interpret the meaning of the words in different ways. The translation of the title is "I follow you" - and there are images and sentiments in the lyrics that at least hint at a very sad emotional background. It's a song of longing - with some brighter shades of meaning and some very dark shades.

The same can be said of the next song: "Agapao Ki Adiaforo" written by Nikolas Asimos who was a very popular singer/songwriter in Greece in the 1980's and who died at a relatively young age. The translation is "I'm in love and I don't care about a thing". It's about an overwhelming love - the kind of love that seems to offer the possibility of healing, but there are intrusions and dangers brought into this relationship from the outside world.

"Get rid of other people's influence" is one of the lines in the song. The narrator is holding on to the person he loves while this person probably already leads a new life with another lover or is simply kept away from the relationship by friends or some other social commitments. It's a feeling I remember pretty well: When you love someone deeply and think you're in a happy relationship, the outside world with all it's distractions becomes an enemy, always trying to pull your loved one away from you. The outside world is always the enemy.

The last song "Verschwiegene Liebe" is a poem to the beauty of the night and an ode to a secret lover- probably someone who doesn't even know about the narrator's feelings. "Thoughts are free" - there's great solace in the fact that when love is not possible for some reason or another, you can at least imagine what it would be like with the person you adore - and nobody will ever know. That's the freedom of the mind in a restricted world.